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| Time of residency | August 2024 |
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| Contact info | dans@danskedansehistorier.dk |
| Definition of artistic practice? | Carolina Bäckman and Andrea Deres are long-time artistic collaborators, rooted in collective art practices and dance as/and extended choreography. Together with Nanna Stigsdatter and Stine Frandsen they initiated Danish Dance Stories – an artist driven platform, which aim to create a lively basis for dialogue and knowledge sharing regarding the independent field of dance and choreography in Denmark (and beyond) - across generations, geography, genres and time(s). |
| Title of the investigation at the residency | Getting Together to Unforget |
| Description of investigations and findings | The 3-day residency at Birca had a two-folded purpose. Partly we were plunging into a creative writing process as we starting up an article for ‘Peripeti – journal for dramaturgical studies’ (issued by the University of Aarhus/DK): Getting Together to Unforget (working title). In the evenings we consulted on Birca’s archival project for artistic research processes, which were currently being established – supporting Susanne and Bente in formulating a seminar and a publication, as well as testing out this database. During the days we made use of the light and spaciousness of the White Space, mapping the possible dispositions, references as well as already written fragments on the dance vinyl – creating a volume to/for the parts we were to structure into an article. Energized by morning yoga, the summer-lush garden of Birca, locally grown food, inspiring conversations, as well as a pause from family structures – we deep-dived into writing.
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| What are you most curious about or invested in in your own practice? | We are often confronted with the question whether DD is a research project or art making – this process was a lovely opportunity to experience how also the writing and contextualizing is an embedded part of the artistic process – how wor(l)dings inform the practices and how the body-mind/mody-bind experiences informs the textual formulations. |
| What questions did you bring to investigate and what questions are you leaving with? | The article set out to unfold the following abstract (excerpt): "What does it imply to unforget a (plural, embodied) history of dance?" How can the participatory activities of the platform DD be understood through a lens of care and maintenance? Could “the field” repair the collective amnesia which haunts the art form in a Danish context? We were not aiming to find answers within the scope of the residency, but rather refining and reformulating in order to go into dialogue with future readers. |
| Transformative, creative moments at the residency | One thing to acknowledge might be the pause when we were hanging laundry - bed linen blowing in the summer breeze. This act of maintenance provided a much needed space to reflect on the intense writing situation (which thematized care and maintenance within dance archival practice), through a simple, useful action. Somehow the domestic domain got to influence the creative work space in a subtle, still vital way. |
| Keywords for the work done at the residency | Co-creation, Curating, Future thinking, Time scales |
| Research locations | BIRCA grounds, White Space (BIRCA) |
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Andrea Deres & Carolina Bäckman / Danish Dance Stories
